I am trying to get WinSCP working with ASL3. I am using file protocol SFTP. SFTP server is: ' sudo su /usr/lib/sftp-server '. Preferred SFTP protocal set to ' auto '. Logging in, I get the error: Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running an SFTP server? I have confirmed the SFTP location,…

[image] WB2HKK: SFTP server is: ' sudo su /usr/lib/sftp-server ' I don't know what you mean by this. Are you trying to use that as the address of the ASL3 host?

Long time user of WinSCP on a 2018 Debian voter system and Arch Linux HamVoIP public nodes. When our voter system crashed I too struggled getting WinSCP to work on a fresh build of Debian 13 (amd64) and ASL3. A few Google AI searches resulted in these notes copied below that I saved to a Word file…

[image] WB2HKK: SFTP server is: ' sudo su /usr/lib/sftp-server '. This is not something you need to touch or worry about. ASL3 comes preconfigured with the sftp-server as the default subsystem. There are a lot of cases in which one needs to use the sftp advanced setting. This is not one of th…

Thanks Kevin. Not sure on step 4. Is this the line to add for user asletsnj? asletsnj ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:ALL I followed everything you posted, and still no WinSCP,

Plainly speaking, that's not how a bog standard SFTP server works, it's not meant to be run directly. It's meant to be run by the SSH daemon. Maybe if you were running it on a system which for some reason wasn't running a SSH daemon and you had a purpose-compiled SFTP server, you might run it direc…

Literally none of the configuration being discussed here is needed to SFTP files from WinSCP to an ASL3 node. Enter the hostname, username, and password and it'll just work. By default, files will end up in /home/$USER for whatever your username is. Obviously you can't overwrite files that are only …

[image] KD2TFB: it's not meant to be run directly. It's meant to be run by the SSH daemon. There are....two reasons off the top of my head you would need to: the sftp subsystem in sshd is misconfigured or not configured you're on an embedded system using busybox, see rule 1 At the root is …

That you Jason, and everyone, for the excellent feedback. All the other ideas are just noise. " Enter the hostname, username, and password and it'll just work " is correct. Then, to avoid permission issues, ' chmod -R 777 /etc/asterisk '.

Then, to avoid permission issues, ' chmod -R 777 /etc/asterisk '. If you're going down this route (making everything in /etc/asterisk writable) then it would be better to use the following : chmod -R ugo+rwX /etc/asterisk This will "add read permissions", "add write permissions", and "add execu…

Maybe this will. It allows Winscp to sudo su - when it connects. [image] HELP winscp Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission denied AllStarLink Help this is the error I get Im using winscp I went into preference & disabled the …

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Maybe this will. It allows Winscp to sudo su - when it connects.